The Clinical Core serves as a resource for all Center members, clinical Infectious Diseases fellows and graduate student.  The core advises users of trial design, assists with recruitment of potential volunteers for Center-sponsored pilot studies, assists in Institutional Review Board (IRB) and regulatory submission, manages a clinical patient database, specimen repository and provides overall clinical expertise to the Center.

The Clinical Core is open to all Center members, and is located at Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services Clinic (CARES) in Sacramento, California. The Clinical Core supports all relevant research projects whose focus is on HIV-AIDS with the goal of increasing the understanding of HIV/AIDS in under represented minorities and by gender.  The specific emphasis areas of the Clinical Core are those which will maximize the research activities of the probable users, both established and junior faculty.

Contact Richard Pollard, at rbpollard@ucdavis.edu or (916) 734-3815 to discuss how the Clinical Core may be able to assist and/or collaborate with you in your AIDS research effort.

Database Searches
Database searches can be performed to identify potential volunteers

Specimen Repository
Samples identified through the Center database can be retrieved from the specimen repository for analysis

Clinical Study Coordination

• Recruitment of potential volunteers
• Obtaining informed consent
• Initiate study procedures

Assistance with Design of Clinical Studies